Peter Dow

[Peter Dow]

The BBC's got a page up today with portrait photographs of a dozen famous Scots, I reckon Mr Dow should bring it up to thirteen (or even get rid of one or two who are on there whom, unlike Mr Dow, I've never heard of).

http://www.bbc.co.uk...otland-15797649

[Peter Dow]

I think he would need a wiki page first. Just did a google search on him to see if he had one and there's tons of crap with his name on it and surprised he hasn't got one already.

[Peter Dow]

Peter, I am highly educated. I am recognised by students, parents, and colleagues as being very good at my job. So i can say that I contribute to society.

How do I prove this? Well, I'm University educated at postgraduate level. My students won a national competition on their first attempt. I've been commended by the school I work at for my contribution to students development and progress.

Edited December 9, 2011 by Peter Dow

[feral chile]

Does anyone feel we bully Barry Fish? There's quite a number of threads where there's large numbers of people (myself included) deriding his opinion and calling him things such as 'idiot' 'moron' 'nutjob', etc. yet there's never been the same accusations as in this thread regarding Peter. I appreciate noone's called for Barry to be banned, but I can't see much else different, apart from the Condi jokes.

Edited December 10, 2011 by feral chile

[feral chile]

Oh metaphorical sticks don't bully me. If I am allowed a right of reply, I can defend myself and give as good as I get.

The really serious bullying in life I resent is from the terrorism of the state such as being arrested, handcuffed or locked up or being threatened with being locked up by police, lawyers or judges.

Even more bullying is while locked up in prison to be further threatened by a court-appointed psychiatrist with being sectioned and then in future possibly forcibly subjected to psychiatric horrors such as injections of anti-psychotics, ECT, lobotomy etc which would destroy my health and completely ruin my life. I have a good quality of life and I don't need some shrink quack wrecking my brain.

The only person (or persons) in this forum who has a theoretical power to bully any of us really is the forum admin (and any moderators) who have the power to delete posts, lock threads or ban any of the rest of us.

This was the aim of the original post of this topic - to have something done to stop my posts.

I am replying in defence of my continuing opportunity to post here in eFestivals.

[kaosmark2]

Well you have not been paying attention. American presidential elections put the candidates on the spot as much as candidates for prime minister in this country.

The real idiots to compare the politicians to are the idiotic royals who rarely if ever have to justify their role on camera from aggressive republican questioning. Sympathetic interviews is the most the junior royals tolerate and the Queen never seems to answer any unscripted questions even sympathetic ones.

[kaosmark2]

yes.

But both Peter and Barry Fish cope very well with criticism. And Peter doesn't feel bullied,so maybe Barry Fish would disagree.

Mind you, bullying is a fascinating topic. Is bullying in the eye of the beholder? And if so, which beholder? Can you be bullied and not know about it, or not acknowledge it?

I know personally I'd find it very difficult to admit even to myself that I'd been bullied, because that suggests I'd given in to bullying tactics. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't recognise attempts to bully me.

And can you bully someone unintentionally? Do you have to have intent?

[kaosmark2]

The scariest part of psychiatry is the 'sectioning' issue. I understand how sometimes there might not be an easy alternative. My mum was close to being sectioned once (who is fine-ish now), and I have another friend whos sister is getting close to it... but it just seems to be the most hopeless 'place' to end up. How do you convince someone who thinks otherwise that you're ok?

[Peter Dow]

.. in a republic, it still would have ...

[Peter Dow]

Peter, can I just ask if you're OK with the direction this discussion's taking?

For myself, I get uncomfortable when we start talking about you, and not with you.

[Peter Dow]

The notion that the monarchy is directly responsible for thousands of deaths is clearly nonsense (I say that as a republican)

Edited December 10, 2011 by Peter Dow

[Peter Dow]

Peter, I wish you would. I really wish you could.

Edited December 10, 2011 by Peter Dow

[Peter Dow]

@Petey, just curious how long have you been doing the whole kill the Queen and start a republica thing for and have you made any kind of progress so far?

Edited December 11, 2011 by Peter Dow

[russycarps]

uh oh. It's all got a little bit crackpot again....

1. How would Peter Dow's republic have prevented Dunblane? By denying people the freedom to hold firearms certificates? Isnt that a denial of freedom?

2. Your understanding of the Norwegian massacre is absurd. This was about something far more sinister than your republican plot ramblings. For you to try and move the focus off the real reasons for the attack is borderline offensive.

[Peter Dow]

Being completely honest? I dont actually mind my taxes funding his existence. Rather they go to someone like him who can give me clearly defined reasons why he doesnt want to take a minimum wage job, as he has when challenged earlier.

He is far from the archetypal "dole scrounger".

I bet he "works" a lot harder each day on his beliefs then a lot of us do in our paid jobs. Some of those photoshopped images of condoleeza rice must have taken hours!

[Peter Dow]

Can I point out this argument of "full employment" is irrelevant as a defence of Does position. He is clearly not interested in working regardless of the number of available jobs.

Edited December 12, 2011 by Peter Dow

[Peter Dow]

I don't personally view people as "spongers" according to what they choose to spend the money they get from benefits. Its about his mindset and what he is and isn't prepared to do for our society.

Ever done any charity work Dow while you have been sucking from societies nipple ?

[russycarps]

Get a job you lazy git

[jump]

False. If the local universities were opened up to me, I could complete my studies and then get a job I want to do.

Otherwise, I consider that I have a political duty to get all such closed universities opened up and defending academic freedom and civil liberties.

What the likes of you don't seem to be in interested in doing is attaching fair strings to the large amounts of tax-payer money given to universities.

You seem happy that our universities are under-performing with tax-payer cash.

You seem happy that a huge lump sum goes from the UK to the Queen's government of Scotland to waste on poorly run universities as they see fit.

You seem happy that anyone who wants to insist on good management of universities is being marginalized.

The only conclusion that can be drawn is that you are very happy to be heavily taxed to no good purpose.

[Peter Dow]

I'm now dreading Peter's next photoshop contribution

[Kyelo]

"Our children would expect to inherit some of my superior genes. I am fit, healthy, strong and very clever" My favourite Dow quote

[Peter Dow]

I think Pete confessed that his benefit claim is fraudulent though

Edited December 12, 2011 by Peter Dow

[Peter Dow]

It's a damned good job that not everyone takes your approach, because the likes of Mandela could have had the same "paranoid and delusional" thrown at him for his belief in an unfashionable idea.

Edited December 19, 2011 by Peter Dow

[fred quimby]

False. If the local universities were opened up to me, I could complete my studies and then get a job I want to do.

[Gre]

Genuine question to those more in the know than me; Is a computer science degree from 1983 actually worth the paper its written on nowadays?